One consideration might be whether you want to broadcast or record video from Zwift. I’m not sure if the Alienware supports Quicksync, but if it doesn’t an i7 may be necessary to encode the video at a reasonable speed using a software encoder.

I have just yesterday bought the Alpha i3 with upgraded to 8Gig RAM and an upgrade to 250Gig SSD and can say that it ran great. Very happy with the visual improvement and the actual overall computer performance of Zwift over my 2012 macbook Air as far as running Zwift.

Question is: Would it be worth is to buy and upgrade ro 250gb SSD and put in 8gb RAM as a dedicated zwift only machine? I don’t need 4k level graphics, Just something better than a 4 yr old macbook pro i3